CVE-2016-2538

An integer-overflow issue was found in the QEMU emulator built with USB Net device emulation support. The flaw could occur while processing remote NDIS control message packets because the incoming informationBufferOffset & Length combination could cross the integer range. A privileged user inside a guest could use this flaw to leak host memory bytes to the guest, or crash the QEMU process instance (denial of service).

This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.

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